Sweden s Susanna Kallur will return to the Karlsruhe indoor meeting on 31 January, the event where she ran the still-standing 60m hurdles world record of 7.68 in 2008, organisers of the first IAAF Indoor Permit meeting of the year announced on Tuesday ...

European athletes will be hoping for a change of fortune at the 41st edition of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in the Chinese city of Guiyang on 28 March, and in Turkey s Polat Arikan, they might finally have just the man to do it.

Edna Kiplagat will face two former London Marathon champions and the fastest half marathon runner in history when she defends her Virgin Money London Marathon women s title on Sunday 26 April, organisers of the IAAF Gold Label Road Race announced on We...

The IAAF was saddened to be informed of the passing of Lieutenant General Mmopati S. Merafe, the patron, founder member and first chairperson of the Botswana Athletics Association, who died on the morning of 7 January 2015 after years of ill health.

Genzebe Dibaba will take a tilt at the world indoor 5000m record at the XL Galan meeting in Stockholm on 19 February, organisers of the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting announced on Wednesday (14).

TrackTown USA and the IAAF memorably combined to produce one of the most sustainable multi-day sporting events in history at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, last summer. As a result, the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships have been deservedly awarde...

You could have been excused for not noticing Chinese javelin thrower Zhao Qinggang at the last IAAF World Championships he managed just over 77 metres in qualifying and failed to make the final. But following his phenomenal throw of 89.15m to win the...

Two-time world cross-country medallist Teklemariam Medhin from Eritrea handed Uganda s Timothy Toroitich a rare defeat this winter at the 60th edition of the Cross Internacional de San Sebastian at the Lasarte racecourse on Sunday (11).

The 2013 IAAF World Championships long jump silver medallist and 2014 Commonwealth Games and African Championships 100m winner Blesssing Okagbare is among the world's most versatile athletes. Here the Nigerian superstar offers an insight into all the b...

Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill will have her first combined events outing since she won her gold medal on home soil when she lines up at the famous Hypo-Meeting in the Austrian town of Gotzis on 30-31 May, the organisers of the IAAF Com...